It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments' involvement in the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens. I found it outrageous that the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly could participate in a ceremony honoring a Hungarian fascist ideologue

[Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

Refugee today means somebody who has no home. No homeland. No security. No government to protect him or her. And it is of course one feels not only uprooted, one feels useless. One feels always surrounded by hostile forces. Arousing suspicion.

I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.

Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.